What elevation do you live at?

**Allenson** · 07-21-2011, 01:59 PM

I'm a bit of a geographer by both nature and trade, so I'm always interested in where people live, what the features of the landscape are like, etc.

So, tell us what elevation you live at and if you wish, a description of what the local landforms are like. Please give your answers in both feet and metres above mean sealevel. Here's a handy conversion site:

http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...n/cnvrtbl.html

As for me, I live at roughly 1200 feet/365 metres above sealevel. I live in a cluster of hills in east-central Vermont, on the west side of the Connecticut River. The region around here as a whole, including both eastern Vermont and western/northern New Hampshire (I live very close to the border) ranges from as low as 380'/115m at the surface of the Connecticut River to as high as 6288'/1916m at the top of Mount Washington. Around here, people rarely live above 2000'/609m as the climate at that elevation becomes too harsh for human habitation--lots of snow, short growing season, thin soils, etc.

Go!

**Psychonaut** · 07-21-2011, 02:13 PM

At the moment, around 5,000 ft./1524 m. And yes, running sucks.

**~~SwordoftheVistula~~** · 07-21-2011, 02:15 PM

About 325 ft (99 m)

Not too far from the Potomac River basin.

It's mostly a suburban area, generally pretty hot during summer and not too cold during winter, somewhat hilly. Basically the entire area is covered with either suburban housing tracts or strip mall style commercial areas.

**Allenson** · 07-21-2011, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by Psychonaut

At the moment, around 5,000 ft./1524 m. And yes, running sucks.

You must be somewhere else than PA seeing how the highest point there is about 3200' or so...

**askra** · 07-21-2011, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Allenson

As for me, I live at roughly 1200 feet/365 metres above sealevel.

about the same of you,
367 meters above sea level / 1204 feets

(i have just calculated it with gps)

**Kadu** · 07-21-2011, 02:43 PM

88m/288ft

At a swampy plain but with a rather hilly terrain.

The most important fact of North Portuguese landform is its seaward slope. This orientation is most obvious in the province of the Minho, where mountains to the east (the Peneda, Gerez, Cabreira, Alvão, Marão, and Montemuro) form an amphitheater facing the Atlantic Ocean...Such heights allow northwest Portugal to turn its back upon the meseta of Spain.

Seaward from the granite crests is an area of low valleys, called o Centro (the Center), irregular in shape and size and partially enclosed by granite spurs. It is a fertile area of dense settlement and the core of Portuguese nationality.

A typical phenomenon of the Minho Province is that of a broad, flat valley floor lying sharply against steep bordering slopes.

The Coast is the third division which a Minhoto makes of his province. It is an emergent coast, with a narrow beach sloping gradually upward to the slight eminences just a few miles inland, against which the waves of the Pliocene sea washed.

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